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Contents 1 Data Crystal 2 You're invited! 3 Possibility of Wikipedia:Wikipedia Loves Art in Pittsburgh 4 Mediation Request 5 "Soapboxing account" 6 Hi 7 WWEYANKS52 8 Wikipedia:Changing_username/SUL#Nepenthessss_.E2.86.92_Nepenthes 9 NYC Meetup: You're invited! 10 You do realize... 11 Help 12 Apology 13 Hi 14 Fair use rationale for File:Jotto.jpg 15 Mediation committee question that needs to be addressed 16 Talkback 17 Happy Andrevan's Day! 18 Mediation 19 Semi-protection for The Coon 20 Please help 21 You're invited! 22 Dong 23 Geez 24 Request for arbitration - Unjustified ban of users 25 Tassedthe and Toon05 26 Make me an Administrator! 27 Re: FPS 28 Hi Andre 29 Admin Coaching 30 An article you !voted on in an AfD is up for deletion a second time 31 You're invited... 32 TreoBoy680 33 ThankSpam 34 RFC: socionics 35 Wiki-Conference New York Update: 3 weeks to go 36 Changing username

[edit] Data Crystal

Me and my mate were wondering if there is any way of taking over (becoming a bureaucrat) on this wiki: Data crystal , we are asking you because it has been inactive for a long time, and we were hoping to try and take over to help fix it up. I have tried asking people on this wiki but no one is ever on besides me, the only other contributions are random IP addresses that spam the articles (even more then they already are). If you could please reply on my talk page it would be highly appreciated, thanks (This message has been sent to most bureaucrat's). --MỸŠŦЄЯỸЊӘҒҒ (talk) 13:47, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] You're invited!

New York City Meetup Next: Sunday January 18th, Columbia University area Last: 11/01/2008 This box: view • talk • edit

In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, look at our approval by the Chapters Committee, develop ideas for chapter projects at museums and libraries throughout our region, and hold salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects (see the November meeting's minutes and the December mini-meetup's minutes).

We'll make preparations for our exciting museum photography Wikipedia Loves Art! February bonanza (on Flickr, on Facebook) with Shelley from the Brooklyn Museum and Alex from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

We'll also be collecting folks to join our little Wikipedia Takes the Subway adventure which will be held the day after the meeting.

In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and generally enjoy ourselves and kick back.

You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite list.

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[edit] Possibility of Wikipedia:Wikipedia Loves Art in Pittsburgh

I'd like to invite you to possibly become our Wikimedia contact for the Wikipedia:Wikipedia Loves Art project at a museum in Pittsburgh. We're in talks with them now, and it's not certain yet, but it would be great for them to know they have a local person to work with, which could really increase the likelihood of this going forward. Please e-mail me soon, because this is starting in February. Thanks!--Pharos (talk) 04:03, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Mediation Request

Hello, On behalf of the concerned parties in the mediation case of The Man Who Would Be Queen. I know that none of you have to accept our case. I felt that asking all of you would be the best first approach. If you have any interest in mediating for us, or not, please indicate this on the talk page of the mediation case. If you are outright interested, want to mediate this case, and need no other convincing then please indicate that as well and we can get the ball rolling. If not we will not bother you anymore. Thankyou. --Hfarmer (talk) 08:12, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

If I may add to what Hfarmer wrote above, we very much need your help. As a group, we have had an enormous number of disputes on a set of related pages, and parts of this dispute have even put WP in The New York Times. The pages themselves remain an embarrassment to WP, and I hope you can help us solve our long-standing impasse for our own good as well as for WP's.

I can’t imagine what you or any other mediator uses in deciding which cases to take. I can’t say that the specific issues we need help addressing are novel (COI, incivility, etc.); however, I do have some confidence that most people would find the subject matter rather engaging. Such issues include the nature of transsexuality, the controversies between how (some) scientists describes transsexuality versus how (some) transsexual activists describe transsexuality, a book on the topic that immediately became wildly controversial, and the individual activists and scientists involved (some of whom participate here), all of which became quite ugly. The most complete (yet brief) description of where we now stand (in my opinion) is here.

Thank you for your attention, and I hope you can help us to resolve this wide-ranging problem.

— James Cantor (talk) 14:11, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] "Soapboxing account"

I was wondering what you meant by this in your block of User:Spinnaker gybe. I am not familiar with that as a valid blocking reason and I am unclear as to how this user was being disruptive. I am not going to unblock without consulting with you, but my current feeling is that this user should be unblocked. Please let me know. Andre (talk) 01:38, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

I noticed a few other examples of this block reason in your recent contribution history. It seems that in several instances you have blocked users who have only ever edited talk pages. How this is disruptive I fail to understand, and certainly an indefinite block with no warnings is a gross abuse of admin powers and an example of newbie biting. Andre (talk) 01:41, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Cross posted to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard. Andre (talk) 01:50, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

You can see the comments right above on this page and also my posts to Nick-D (talk · contribs) Skinny87 (talk · contribs) Climie.ca (talk · contribs) and WT:MHCOORD following a request for people to look at the WWI article. YellowMonkey (click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model!) 00:53, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

yeah they told me to change my user because of some beltway sniper attack thing i had no idea about AcesUpMaSleeve (talk) 02:13, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Hi

Thanks for restoring the ED talk page history, but unforutnately, you did not restore the right article page history. You (probably accidentally) restored the "Encyclopedia Dramatica" history instead of the "æ" version. The non-æ edits from 2005 and 2006 were simply redirect-related. Egebwc (talk) 06:51, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] WWEYANKS52

Regarding WWEYANKS52's inquiry, I've looked into it, but cannot figure out what happened. The CHU went through, but the two accounts remain separated. Any ideas? Sincerely, Kingturtle (talk) 14:11, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Changing_username/SUL#Nepenthessss_.E2.86.92_Nepenthes

If I understood correctly you want me to confirm to rename Nepentessss to Nepenthes - which I herewith would like to do. Thanks for ur help! --Nepenthes (talk) 19:03, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] NYC Meetup: You're invited!

New York City Meetup—Museum Extravanganza Next: February 6-7, at the Met Museum and the Brooklyn Museum Last: 01//2008 This box: view • talk • edit

Join us the evenings of Friday February 6 and Saturday February 7 around Wikipedia Loves Art! museum photography events at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum.

There will also be a special business meeting on Saturday dedicated to discussing meta:Wikimedia New York City issues with guests from the Wikimedia Foundation.

You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite list.

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[edit] You do realize...

that your post to WT:RFA is crying out for somebody to write Support/Endorse ;-)---Balloonman ^PoppaBalloon 06:18, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Of course, but the clued in (that agree) won't. And I just wanted to say bravo, Andre. If anyone really thought RfA needed fixing and wanted to they would slog through all the RfA feedback and make some sense of that. No one seems to be lining up for that task though. - Taxman ^Talk 12:17, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Help

I am only asking for help with this one here because you supposedly performed the initial username change, but it doesn't seem to have worked. It was approved and supposedly done here:[1]. His posts kept showing up as DCsniper207, however, so he asked for the same username change at WP:CHU again, but it was denied because now the new name is showing up as taken. So he had to request a third username but only because he thinks that someone changed it back on him:[2]. Any idea why the first move didn't take? Can you help him?--2008Olympian^chitchat 04:47, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Apology

I've posted a general apology in my withdrawal statement at the Oversight election page, but I felt that as a contributor you deserve an individual apology too.

It was not my intention to let the election begin without a statement, but an IT gremlin "ate" my first attempt at posting there some hours before the election was to begin and then unforseeable RL issues prevented me from getting back to it until too late. Thank you for your consideration and sincere regrets for wasting your time. --Dweller (talk) 10:25, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Hi

So will you help me? Syjytg (talk) 12:58, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi,

I've written a java program which searches yahoo and then reads the sites returned for college basketball player information.

Anyway, a large number of the sites that are returned are wikipedia pages, but recently, these pages have been returning no information. I'm wondering if wikipedia has blocked my "bot".

Please let me know if there is anything that I need to do like joining the bot group.

Thanks

-Zack

[edit] Fair use rationale for File:Jotto.jpg

Thanks for uploading or contributing to File:Jotto.jpg. I notice the file page specifies that the file is being used under fair use but there is not a suitable explanation or rationale as to why each specific use in Wikipedia constitutes fair use. Please go to the file description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale.

If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on those pages too. You can find a list of 'file' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free media lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Stifle (talk) 14:18, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Mediation committee question that needs to be addressed

Your input regarding a question for the mediation committee is requested. Please see Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_mediation#Would_this_case_be_accepted.3F. Thank you, --Hammersoft (talk) 14:30, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Talkback

MuZemike 21:58, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Happy Andrevan's Day!

Andrevan has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, and therefore, I've officially declared today as Andrevan's day! For being one of our best, most experienced users around, enjoy being the Star of the day, Andrevan! Cheers, bibliomaniac15 00:46, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Mediation

Hi fellow editor, I need mediation in the following topic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism_in_Sikhism. I feel like I am getting involved in a edit war with user Khalsaburg on many topics. I am concerned about the deletion of references with isbn numbers and replacement with blog sites and spurious religious text from wwwsikhiwiki.org and www.info-sikh.org. Can you help me start mediation? --Sikh-history (talk) 13:38, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Semi-protection for The Coon

Do you think you could enable semi-protection for The Coon (unless someone already did that when I wasn't looking)? It's getting large amounts of vandalism from anonymous users and getting rid of it is getting annoying. --Evice (talk) 02:57, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Please help

Dear Sir or Madam,

Unfortunately, I have made a rather major blunder in an edit that I made to this user's talk page. My edit on the page was a breach of Privacy law, and reflects a serious lack of judgement on my behalf. Because of the urgency of this, I have not been able to contact User:Steve Stefan directly, so at this stage he is unaware of what is going on. Futher, due to the urgency, I have also posted this onto several SysOp and Bureaucrat's talk pages.

The people whose privacy I violated through this edit desire that my edit be removed completely from Wikipedia (including from the history, otherwise I would simply revert the edit myself), which is fair enough, considering what I have posted. Therefore, could you please delete the user's talk page and return the article to the state that it was in prior to my edit. I have a back-up of this page at User:Hunterd/123; the version stored here was a backup of the page as of 15:42 March 20, 2009 (WP time), without the comment that I posted.

If this is not possible, could you please refer me to a person that is capable of doing this.

I would greatly appreciate any help that you can provide.

Kind regards,

The Duke of Andrevan 05:23, 20 March 2009 (UTC) PS: Could you please reply to this message on my own talk page? Thanks.

[edit] You're invited!

New York City Meetup Next: Sunday March 29th, Columbia University area Last: 01/18/2009 This box: view • talk • edit

In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, sign official incorporation papers for the chapter, review recent projects like Wikipedia Loves Art and upcoming projects like Wikipedia at the Library, and hold salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects (see the January meeting's minutes).

In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and generally enjoy ourselves and kick back.

You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite list.

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[edit] Dong

You've got mail. --Dweller (talk) 09:52, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Geez

One day in a year is too much? Sigh. J.delanoy :  Chat  02:23, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Request for arbitration - Unjustified ban of users

I have filed a request for arbitration regarding recent bans of user accounts from which no activities could be found that dispupt Wikipedia. The arbitration request can be found here: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration#Block of editors related to sockpuppet Jvolkblum You are not mentioned as an involved party, I send you this message as a courtesy for your information, and I hope that your opinion there can contribute to solve the issue. Thank you! doxTxob \ ^talk 23:14, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Tassedthe and Toon05

You just closed both these requests two hours early. The same thing happened with Rlevse and Avraham's RfB earlier today. I expect you saw that the two were marked pink on the SoxBot report and thought they were overtime? I think RfXs are marked pink when they are within 6 hours of closure. I might contact X! and ask him to ramify this. Best, —Anonymous Dissident^Talk 12:05, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Make me an Administrator!

Please make me as a administrator!! I'm new Here!!!! Elmopedia89 (talk) 23:29, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Re: FPS

Pretty sure everything is properly sourced. Specifics? It went through a successful GA Review recently so it's all been checked. bridies (talk) 01:32, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

By "specifics", I mean the exact sentence/claim/wording. "Doom etc" and "Maze War etc" is no use. bridies (talk) 01:54, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Hi Andre

I noticed this.

Regardless of the rights or wrongs, I think your tone with a fellow Crat is a little harsh. I'll leave it with you. --Dweller (talk) 09:04, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Just to say, I didn't take offence at your remark. It just seemed to me that renaming for so flippant a reason was not for the best. The user requested a rename because they've gone from one book to another; they're complicating logs for absolutely no reason. It strikes me that username changes and, indeed, usernames in general are not intended as anything more than a handle to edit with. Either way, I respect your decision and what's done is done. But I certainly didn't intend to "slow down" the process, and I don't think there's any rush. —Anonymous Dissident^Talk 09:55, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi Andre. I assumed your intentions were good - and I still do. Just sometimes things come across harsher in the toneless world of text than can be intended. Nonetheless, I see AD didn't have a problem with it, so there's no issue. I hope you didn't mind my note - I hate discord and am prone to step in and try to ensure there's no conflict. --Dweller (talk) 09:07, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Admin Coaching

I saw that you were listed in the Coaches for reconfirmation section of the admin coaching status page. Could you please update your status, and if you are still interested, drop me a note on my talk page? Thanks, Genius101^Guestbook 13:32, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] An article you !voted on in an AfD is up for deletion a second time

Please see: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/BVE Trainsim (2nd nomination) Ikip (talk) 00:55, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Move from user talk ikip:

Re Canvassing

Contacting all the people who voted on a previous AFD in an attempt to balance the outcome to that prior outcome is canvassing and should be avoided. Andre (talk) 01:18, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

thanks for the message. Ikip (talk) 01:20, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] You're invited...

New York City Meetup Next: Sunday May 17th, Columbia University area Last: 03/29/2009 This box: view • talk • edit

In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, establish a membership process for the chapter, review the upcoming Wiki-Conference New York 2009 (planned for ~100 people at NYU this summer) and future projects like Wikipedia at the Library, and hold salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects (see the March meeting's minutes).

In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and generally enjoy ourselves and kick back.

You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite list.

To keep up-to-date on local events, you can also join our mailing list.
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[edit] TreoBoy680

"Not even slightly promotional" - other than the fact it clearly promotes a type of PDA. But whatever. And "Please assume good faith and give users the benefit of the doubt." is fine if you wish to address me directly. Having used one Canadian-based acronym to edit with a conflict of interest, I wanted to double-check. All I'm saying is it seems a little crude to "argue" in public. The Rambling Man (talk) 17:49, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. Not to worry, I'm going to focus on editing articles from now on. Cheers, good luck. The Rambling Man (talk) 19:08, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

No offence, I was probably feeling oversensitive anyway. Keep up your good work. The Rambling Man (talk) 19:12, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Andre, it was generally my practice when I disagreed with the decision of another crat to talk to them about it and suggest they reconsider it rather than just overturning them. If we couldn't agree, I'd suggest opening up the difference of opinion to to wider discussion. It's a little impolitic to describe someone's reasoning as "dubious" or "spurious". Just dropping by so pay me whatever you heed you think appropriate, but your approach here does seems uncharacteristically blunt. WJBscribe (talk) 00:33, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

I pop my head in from time to time. An RfA and a thread on the crat noticeboard caught my eye this evening.

I didn't mean to suggest that the rename decisions should be political, just that bureaucrats are a small group and that good working relations are important. TRM seems to have taken your remark on the chin, as apparently has AD in an early thread, but were I still a bureaucrat I think we'd fall out if you just reversed my decisions without talking it over with me.

Renames are a judgment call, and so it will happen that crats validly come to different conclusions on the outcome. For instance, prior to SUL it was clear that there were some crats who would rename users to non-latin names (other than the user's own name) or symbols and others who would reject such requests. I always saw a crat tagging a request as "not done" the equivalent of an admin closing an AfD as "keep" - while not a use of tools, it is the making of a decision the community has appointed that person to make. I don't think you'd reverse a rename you disagreed with without discussion, and I think you should give a little more though to overruling "not done" requests. WJBscribe (talk) 01:00, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Apparently we see things rather differently then and I confess that I think the way your going about this is problematic. I'm not going to prolong this discussion as I presently don't intend to return to being active but I think you should canvass wider opinion on how casually "not done" requests should be overturned. Incidentally, now that I gather local username hiding is possible, I think that would be a more appropriate way of dealing with users who just want their names to no longer be registered here but aren't planning to continue editing with the same account (as that doesn't leave the public log entry that renaming does). WJBscribe (talk) 15:03, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] ThankSpam

My RfA Thank you for participating in my "RecFA", which passed with a final tally of 153/39/22. There were issues raised regarding my adminship that I intend to cogitate upon, but I am grateful for the very many supportive comments I received and for the efforts of certain editors (Ceoil, Noroton and Lar especially) in responding to some issues. I wish to note how humbled I was when I read Buster7's support comment, although a fair majority gave me great pleasure. I would also note those whose opposes or neutral were based in process concerns and who otherwise commented kindly in regard to my record. I recognise that the process itself was unusual, and the format was generally considered questionable - and I accept that I was mistaken in my perception of how it would be received - but I am particularly grateful for those whose opposes and neutrals were based in perceptions of how I was not performing to the standards expected of an administrator. As much as the support I received, those comments are hopefully going to allow me to be a better contributor to the project. Thank you. Very much. LessHeard vanU (talk) 20:02, 24 May 2009 (UTC) ~~~~~

Well, back to the office it is...

[edit] RFC: socionics

Cause I get the sense you are kinda familiar with the crap they pull around here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Socionics Tcaudilllg (talk) 21:21, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Wiki-Conference New York Update: 3 weeks to go

For those of you who signed up early, Wiki-Conference New York has been confirmed for the weekend of July 25-26 at New York University, and we have Jimmy Wales signed on as a keynote speaker.

There's still plenty of time to join a panel, or to propose a lightning talk or an open space session. Register for the Wiki-Conference here. And sign up here for on-wiki notification. All are invited!
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[edit] Changing username

Please cahnge my username because I want to have a unified account. Kaan 321 (talk) 07:25, 4 July 2009 (UTC)